Tag Archives: hockey fans

Are hockey fans really empirically better than the fans of every other sport? I don’t know. Fandom is pretty subjective. To be honest, when I came up with the title of this list, I was just trying to pull a Buzzfeed and use hyperbole to appeal to a very specific demographic. That being said, you won’t find many […]

Every sport has fans and players shouting at each other. However, only hockey punishes players by placing them in a glass box completely surrounded by fans, who then harass the players like kids taunting monkeys at the zoo. It’s just one of those unnecessary, idiosyncratic things that makes hockey great. I bring this up, of course, because […]

Despite the fact that the New York Islanders are probably going to make the playoffs this year, the team is still dead last in the NHL in attendance, averaging just 13,193 fans per game. Why? Well, being a terrible embarrassment of an organization for years and years probably drives fans away, and playing in somebody’s […]